Gabriel Ocana-Santero says his startup's agent chose an epilepsy treatment from 19 candidates, steered a motorized rig to inject it into a mouse's brain, and refused to retry a blocked move even when he pushed it to.
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Gabriel Ocana-Santero says his startup's agent chose an epilepsy treatment from 19 candidates, steered a motorized rig to inject it into a mouse's brain, and refused to retry a blocked move even when he pushed it to.
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A Minnesota hardware reseller put 300 racks of decommissioned hyperscaler servers on eBay for $59.7 million or best offer, with free FedEx Ground, $25 two-day and $50 overnight shipping, no returns and a 30-day warranty.
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The Digital Candle is a 10-inch circuit board with a 9 × 16 grid of amber LEDs driven by an ESP32-S3 running a tiny model trained on phone footage of one real candle, generated on the board with the radios off. It sells for $149 from Arduboy's shop.
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RFC 790 marked network 127 reserved with no stated purpose; Berkeley Unix picked 127.0.0.1 in 1983, RFC 990 made 127 loopback in 1986, and a 2025 draft proposed giving most of it back.
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DFRobot's LattePanda Sigma 2 pairs an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H with 64GB of LPDDR5X, two 10Gb Ethernet ports and a 1TB SSD that boots Ubuntu with a local Qwen model already served over an OpenAI-compatible API. Pre-orders are $2,599 before the price rises to $2,799.
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A free Windows tool takes your own Switch game dumps and your own console keys, rewrites the game's arm64 code to run directly on an Android phone, and hands back an APK; it needs an Adreno or Xclipse GPU.
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A phone survey of 5,000 households found only about 2 percent were listening; most were on NBC with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Newspapers did most of the spreading of the panic story.
NEC Home Electronics and Hudson's console cost 24,800 yen and was about as wide and deep as a CD case. Games came on HuCARDs, and a multitap let five people play.
The final one ran in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Multics was begun in 1965, and MIT had shut its own down 12 years earlier.
Microsoft ended retail sales of Windows 7, then had to clarify that PCs with it preinstalled were a separate deadline. The boxed copy on the store shelf was the part that died.
Apple discontinued the 13-inch MacBook Pro at its M3 launch, and the Touch Bar went with it. Seven years after its debut, the strip of emoji buttons above the keyboard had no Mac left to live on.
1975: A build-it-yourself computer: $439 for an Altair 8800 kit with 1 KB of memory and a 2 MHz chip. Today: $5 for a Raspberry Pi Pico 2. The Pico 2 runs at 150 MHz with 520 KB of memory.
